Latest Music Headlines
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Jermaine Dupri and his So So Def companies have ended their $18 million royalty lawsuit against Sony Music Entertainment less than two months after filing it, telling a federal court that the parties had resolved their dispute before Sony formally joined the case. Dupri, So So Def Recordings and So…
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Ariana Grande can begin subpoenaing social-media platforms and payment services in an effort to identify the people she accuses of stealing, leaking and selling years of unreleased music. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark H. Epstein granted Grande’s request for expedited discovery on August 19th, clearing her lawyers to seek…
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Spotify has reached 300 million Premium subscribers, hitting a new scale for paid audio streaming as subscriber growth, revenue and profitability all increased during the second quarter of 2026. The company disclosed the milestone August 4th with its Q2 results. Premium subscriptions increased 9% from a year earlier, while Spotify…
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Influence Media Partners has agreed to acquire substantially all of Anthem Entertainment’s assets for more than $600 million, adding a sprawling collection of publishing rights, master recordings and film and television music to its BlackRock-backed music investment platform. The agreement was announced July 29th and covers Anthem’s music publishing catalogs,…
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Sony Music Entertainment has filed a second federal copyright lawsuit against AI music company Udio, alleging the service copied 30,117 Sony-controlled sound recordings to train its generative music models without permission. The complaint was filed July 20th in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by…
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X Corp. and a group of major music publishers have ended the competing federal lawsuits at the center of a three-year fight over copyright, licensing and music used on the social platform formerly known as Twitter. Joint stipulations filed July 16th dismissed the publishers’ copyright infringement case in Tennessee and…
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Apple Music has raised subscription prices in the United States and numerous international markets, with Apple pointing directly to rising music licensing costs as the reason listeners will now pay more for the streaming service. The changes took effect July 17th and mark Apple Music’s first major subscription increase since…
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Sony Music Publishing has completed its acquisition of Recognition Music Group’s music-rights portfolio, bringing interests encompassing more than 45,000 songs assembled during the modern catalog-investment boom into one of the world’s largest publishing operations. The transaction closed July 15th after receiving regulatory approvals in multiple territories. Sony completed the purchase…
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Lit has reached a settlement in principle with Sony Music Entertainment in a lawsuit built around an unusually modern question buried inside a recording contract signed in 1998: should streams be paid like record sales or licenses of the band’s master recordings? The rock band behind “My Own Worst Enemy”…
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Primary Wave Music has completed its acquisition of Kobalt, closing a transaction worth roughly $1.5 billion that brings one of the music industry’s largest independent publishing and royalty-administration businesses under the Primary Wave umbrella. The deal closed July 7th after clearing regulatory scrutiny, Music Business Worldwide reports. Primary Wave acquired…
